Cato CTRL Threat Brief: AI, Zero-Days, and the US-China Cyber Arms Race
Underlying the US–China AI race, there’s arguably a more sinister arms race—the race to identify zero-day threats. Frontier AI algorithms, such as Anthropic Mythos (here) and China’s Qihoo 360 (here), are compressing the zero-day discovery cycle. But how those discoveries are gathered and shared among cooperating entities is giving China significant defensive and offensive advantages.